Producing, full of, or resembling smoke or fumes; smoky or vaporous.
From Latin fumus (smoke) plus the English adjective suffix -y. The Latin fumus comes from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning to smoke or emit vapor. Over time, the suffix -y was added to create an adjective describing something that has the quality of smoke.
This word shows how languages love to take a noun and make it an adjective just by adding a suffix like '-y'—you see it everywhere: rain→rainy, salt→salty, fume→fumy. English speakers are constantly recycling word parts to describe new qualities!
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